Ted Bauer, Christian movie reviews
Subject: Ted Bauer, Christian movie reviews
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 9/30/10, 18:49
To: Michael Hogan <Michael_Hogan@condenast.com>

Howdy-

One of the speakers at the Values Voters conference the other day was Ted Bauer, whom I've actually done a lot of research on in the past in preparation for a book that never got written. He runs a site/service called Movieguide for which he reviews new films from a Christian perspective, which entails listing anything that could be of possible offense to anyone. Here's an excerpt from his review of Snakes on a Plane, for instance:

“…snake bites woman’s naked breast, implied snake bite on man’s penis and camera reverses viewpoint to show man grasping snake’s head on his crotch, snake bites woman in the eye, snakes bite arms and necks and faces and other parts of people’s bodies, man impaled, body sucked out of plane, large snake constricts man and starts swallowing his head, people chop or stab snakes, man bitten by snakes in airplane lavatory smashes the back of his skull against the wall as he convulses during snake attacks, gruesome snake bites and swollen dead bodies from snake bites, man tasers snakes, man’s shoots a couple snakes, people bat snakes away with luggage and laptops, snakes threaten baby, dog and two young boys, poisonous snake crawls into woman’s clothes, snakebite on boy’s swollen arm cut open and venom oozes out before woman sucks out the poison…”

He also reviews foreign and indie films. In his review of The Science of Sleeps, he makes a point of noting that the film includes “…light comic violence includes man falls [sic] out of bed…”

Let me know if you'd be interested in a piece on this fellow and his goings-on.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302